Arc
Security and privacy
file encryption archiver
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
1 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenter hopes the project gets more traction
From 1 comment
Just a couple of commits from one contributor. I'll keep an eye on it; hope it gets more traction.
grep4master on HN
Objections
Duplicates the unix pattern of piping tar into gpg
From 2 comments
This seems counter to the "unix philosophy". I would expect to use an archiving tool piped into an encryption tool. I'm not sure of the utility of something that combines the two.
LeoPanthera on HNSeems like it would be more unix-like to just pipe tar into gpg.
spilk on HN
Name collides with the historical arc archive format
From 1 comment
The name arc has namespace collision problems. Not in software in general (I never complained about somebody calling their language elm - that's Cantrill's job), but in archivers…
qwertyuiop924 on HN
Unclear whether it requires a server component
From 1 comment
It's not clear from the README ... is this a client/server app, wherein I need to have 'arc' living on the server side ? Or can I just point arc to SSH/SFTP and the server can be…
rsync on HN
Requests
Support random-access extraction of single files
From 2 comments
This is the first that I've heard of ChaCha for encryption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20#ChaCha_variant). Apparently it's a standard that Google is pushing to replace…
josho on HNYour understanding is backwards. Stream ciphers are fundamentally compatible with random-access decryption, so yes this is entirely possible. That said, authentication of a…
stouset on HN
Compare with borg
From 1 comment
Can the author compare and contrast to 'borg' which, it appears, has become the de facto standard for this kind of work ?
rsync on HN
Questions
Which HMAC verifies archive contents before decryption
From 1 comment
What HMAC is used to verify the contents of the archive before decryption takes place?
valarauca1 on HN
How it differs from tarsnap's client
From 1 comment
Why use this over tarsnap's client (which is also free software and has features like local deduplication).
cyphar on HN
Alternatives named
gpg and gpg-zip
From 1 comment
Cool! I usually use gpg-zip for this purpose on machines where I have gpg installed. ``` gpg-zip --symmetric --gpg-args --cipher-algo=AES256 --output backup.tar.gpg file1 file2…
Pirate-of-SV on HN
tar piped into gpg
From 1 comment
Seems like it would be more unix-like to just pipe tar into gpg.
spilk on HN
tarsnap
From 1 comment
Why use this over tarsnap's client (which is also free software and has features like local deduplication).
cyphar on HN
borg
From 1 comment
Can the author compare and contrast to 'borg' which, it appears, has become the de facto standard for this kind of work ?
rsync on HN